Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Yes, it’s another week of new horror releases. Sorry to the non-horror folks out there! But maybe I can tempt you:
This Girl’s A Killer by Emma C. Wells. Releases in September 2024 from Poisoned Pen Press. This cover gets an A+ from me, I absolutely love it! Plus a female serial killer story? Something I need more of in my life, lol.
In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and unravels a dark secret that the women have been keeping for generations.
Marshall is still trying to put the pieces together after the death of her husband. After she is involved in a terrible accident, her editor sends her to the small, backwards town of Raeford to investigate a clearly ridiculous rumor: that a horse has given birth to a healthy, human baby boy.
When Marshall arrives in Raeford, she finds an insular town that is kinder to the horses they are famous for breeding than to their own people. But when two horribly mangled bodies are discovered in a field—one a horse, one a human—she realizes that there might be a real story here.
As she’s pulled deeper into the town and its guarded people, her sense of reality is tipped on its head. Is she losing her grip? Or is this impossible story the key to a dark secret that has haunted the women of Raeford for generations?
Unbearably tense and utterly gripping, this atmospheric tale of female rage, bodily autonomy, and generational trauma hails the arrival of a masterful storyteller.
The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson. Releases in August 2024 from Quirk Books. OK horse horror is a new one for me, and I think this sounds fantastic. Plus, another great cover!
In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over.
But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Their tenuous hold on reality extends to all the members of their eccentric clan, from haughty grandmother Honorine to beautiful yet inscrutable cousin Fosette. And soon the shocking truth comes out: The Duchons are under a curse. And they think Jemma has the power to break it.
As Jemma wrestles with the gift she’s run from all her life, she unravels deeper and more disturbing secrets about the mysterious Duchons. Secrets that stretch back over a century. Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails.
This Cursed House by Del Sandeen. Releases in October 2024 from Berkley. Big thanks to Barb for putting this on my radar! 1960s Chicago and a family curse? This sounds like a perfect October read.
Very intriguing titles! The one that calls louder to me is This Girl’s a Killer: I will have to keep it on my radar if I don’t want to miss out on it! 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
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I’m intrigued by it too. You don’t see female serial killer stories that often.
I’m impressed by the sheer range of these horror offerings. I hope you enjoy them, Tammy:).
The Unmothers and This Cursed House are going on my tbr! Thanks for introducing me!
I hope we both love them:-)
They are all so different, right?
Nope, nope, cannot tempt me with any horror lol!!! Sticking to fantasy, though I bet a lot of people would be interested in that last book.
LOL hopefully I’ll have something for you next week:-)
I have been thinking about getting more into horror fiction, so this seems like a good starting point! I need to start stacking up prospective reads for spooky season as early as possible.
Hopefully some of these sound good to you:-)
This cursed House is the one that appeals to me the most… but all sound creepy and interesting!
I can’t wait to read it:-)
You killed it this week with these three titles. They all sound so good and creepy! I especially love the sound of This Cursed House. The 1960’s setting seems superb!
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Thanks Stephanie! Yes, I also love the 1960s setting for This Cursed House:-)
You’ve tempted me with all of these, but I do like horror now and then so there’s that. 🙂 I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them, Tammy!
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Thanks Wendy!
Well for once I am considering reading a book about a serial killer Tammy!
Glad I could convince you!
Intresting looking books. 🙂
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Thanks Stormi:-)
This Girl’s A Killer sounds good, and I like that cover too (and the one for This Cursed House) 😀
This Girl’s A Killer is such a great cover:-)
And it’s not anywhere near Halloween. 🙂
Ha ha right? For me it’s Halloween all year:-)
Oh, this sounds like fun!
I agree:-)
Horror isn’t really my thing but wow those covers are amazing!
They are a great bunch of covers!
Ooh, these all look good but the third one is definitely calling to me.
Lynn 😀
Yes! I can’t wait.
I think the most interesting for me is the first one, but all three of them sound intriguing! Thanks for sharing!!
I’m always wary about horror, yet simultaneously want to try and check out more of it, but two of these sound intriguing. I love the gothic vibes of the third book and the first definitely has my interest piqued.